All yours, Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya

[Doug Alan <nessus@athena.mit.edu>]

I just saw on TV a commercial for Certs where there is a Russian dude
up in Siberia, or something, and he's really far from the camera.  He
pops a Certs in his mouth and suddenly zips up so that we have an
ultra-closeup of his face and he says something like, "Come to me, my
little babooshka".  Thus, it seems that "babooshka" is used as a term
of affection in Russian, in addition to its meanings as "grandmother"
and "scarf worn on the head".

Perhaps this word is used similar to the way that French men call
their women their "little cabbages".  Cabbage has never seen very
romantic to me, but to a different culture, anything goes....

|>oug